<p>Informed by early twentieth-century avantgardes, principally cubism and expressionism, Dana Schutz's art is an extraordinary and joyful mash-up where a multitude of references and allusions collide. The exhilarating results can be understood as a productive conversation with the history of painting and as a compelling testament to painting's complex and unending death throes. With its conflations of Gericault, horror films, Ensor, Picasso, Guston, porn, and pop culture, her work appears to counter and confront the imperious Internet information colossus, where everything is available at once. This fully bilingual publication accompanies an original exhibition of new and recent work. Born in 1976, Dana Schutz is a New York based artist whose work over the past decade has had a notable influence on contemporary painting. She has had solo exhibitions at, notably, Miami Art Museum (2012); Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and Denver Art Museum (2012); and Hannover Kesterngesellschaft and Hepworth Wakefield (2013). Her work is found in numerous collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and Whitney Museum of American Art.</p>

Dana Schutz (English and French Edition)

Arts & Photography

Zeppetelli, John

History & Criticism

MAC Montreal

A multidisciplinary artist before the invention of the term, Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) moved from medium to medium, producing a prodigious body of work. At a time when art was defined by movements and manifestos, Alleyn's creative restlessness led him to break away from Greenbergian principles to explore new ground. In the 1950s, under the influence of Paul-Emile Borduas and Jean-Paul Riopelle, he mastered abstract modernism before taking a more personal path, notably with works influenced by West Coast Aboriginal art. By the 1970s Alleyn's preoccupations had turned to technology and his greatest work of the era is L'Introscaphe, an egg-shaped vessel that provided an immersive cinematographic environment. Unveiled at the Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1970, the work was experienced by hundreds of visitors. After several years in France he returned to Quebec where, inspired by the changes sweeping society, he sought to subvert the art/spectator paradigm with new works on plexiglas. Later in life Alleyn returned to painting, creating powerful works infused with sense of nostalgia and loss. His last creative period was marked by works mingling the abstract and the figurative much like those of his youth, except the once vivid colours have been replaced with somber blacks and whites. This career monograph reveals an artist whose practice truly embodies the transition from modernist to contemporary art. Magnificently illustrated with color plates featuring works in every medium and from every period, the book accompanies the first retrospective exhibition since the artist's death. Scholarship by experts in the fields of art and film is enriched by the experiences of those who knew and worked with the artist. Fully bilingual in English and French.

Edmund Alleyn: In My Studio I Am Many (English and French Edition) (French and English Edition)

Mark Lanctot

Olivier Asselin

Vincent Bonin

Gilles Lapointe

Aude Weber-Houde

Violence and the dead are major thematics in the sociopolitical art of Teresa Margolles. Born in Culiacan, Mexico, Margolles unfalteringly exposes the social causes and consequences of the endemic violence that ravages her country: violent deaths from the drug trade, exclusions, feminicides, and social injustice. Many of her works consist of substances or objects that have been in close contact to violent crimes and dead bodies, such as water with which corpses have been cleaned, blood-soaked earth, or fabric drenched in body fluids. This monograph brings together works from the past decade, along with pieces that have never been shown before, including sculptural and photographic installations, performative interventions and videos. Spare, yet powerfully moving, Margolles's work reaches out and brings the viewer into the world of those whose lives have been made invisible.

Teresa Margolles: Mundos (English / French Edition) (English and French Edition)

John Zeppetelli

Jean-Philippe Uzel

Thérèse St-Gelais

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